What is top posting in email?

What is top posting in email?

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Q. What is top posting in email?

Top-posting occurs when someone replies to your message by adding reply content to the top of the message that you sent to them, usually leaving your whole message intact at the bottom: From: manager To: you Seventeen. >

Q. Do you reply to an email on top or bottom?

Top posting, or placing your reply at the top of possibly a long thread of messages, or bottom posting, sticking it at the bottom. For long threaded discussions, bottom posting makes it much easier to read the thread IF YOU ARE BEHIND ON YOUR EMAIL. Judicious editing and quoting of past replies makes it even cleaner.

Q. What is top post?

Filters. (Internet) To post (a reply to a message) above the quoted original message (generally regarded as poor netiquette). verb.

Q. What is trimmed quoted text?

Trimming and reformatting When replying to long discussions, particularly in newsgroup discussions, quoted text from the original message is often trimmed so as to leave only the parts that are relevant to the reply—or only a reminder thereof.

Q. Why Top posting is bad?

Top posting is bad because it requires people to scroll down, read the original text, then scroll up again and read the reply. (Many people get a lot of email, and won’t necessarily remember what the last mail was about without reading it again.)

Q. What is Reply All in Outlook?

Reply all sends the new message to the original sender and all other recipients on the To and Cc lines. Attachments are not included. Forward allows you to type in a whole new set of recipients. Any attachments included in the original message are automatically included when you forward a message.

Q. How do you respond to an email within the body of the email?

Reply to an email using Quotes

  1. Open Gmail, and copy the part of the email you want to reply to.
  2. Click Reply .
  3. Click Formatting options Quotes .
  4. Next to the gray bar, paste the original message text.
  5. Press Enter and enter your response below the original message.
  6. Click Send.

Q. Why is top posting bad?

Top posting is bad because it requires people to scroll down, read the original text, then scroll up again and read the reply. (Many people get a lot of email, and won’t necessarily remember what the last mail was about without reading it again.) Here is an example of top posting. When replying, don’t “bottom post”.

Q. What does reply in line mean?

Inline replying is where you reply within the main body of the email, rather than writing your own email from scratch. Inline replying is something most of us already do from time to time. But we should be replying inline far more often.

Q. Should I reply or reply all?

Replying to all is the most efficient option when you have important information for the majority of the people included in the message thread. If your response would only affect a smaller number of recipients, then edit the list of contacts in the “To” field so that you are only communicating with those affected.

Q. What happens when you reply all to Bcc?

When the recipient click on Reply All, they will only see and can reply to those who’s included in the Cc field and the email address included in the Bcc will be unable to receive the response from the other recipients.

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